Over the weekend, people were sharing an image that purported to be Barack Obama's official White House portrait.

The stunning portrait had also gone viral on Facebook thanks to a post on Saturday.

Blake Green, 33, told BuzzFeed News that he read on his Facebook News Feed that this picture was the official portrait. "After I found out that it actually wasn't, the photo had gone viral," he said.

Indeed, people were incredibly enamored with what they thought was the official portrait. Many commented on the apparent choice of the tan suit, given that Obama was once mocked for wearing the outfit in August 2014.

However, a spokesperson for the former president told BuzzFeed News that this is NOT Obama's official White House portrait.

"I'm very pleased to hear that my portrait of Barack Obama appeared on Twitter!" he wrote in an email to BuzzFeed News. "I wish I had the opportunity to paint the official portrait but that's not the case."

The artist said he’s flattered that people thought his work, which is for sale, was the official presidential portrait.

“As an artist I am always hoping for something like this to happen! And as a professional portrait painter it would be a great honor to paint the president," he said.

The user whose tweet went viral, J.A. Boyd, told BuzzFeed News he took "no credit" for the mistake, having seen the photo on Facebook first.

However, he added a clarification to his original post on Monday afternoon: "*No confirmation if this will hang in the White House, but it will be in my grandmother's living room."